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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Doppie1200 on April 10, 2016, 06:11:05 PM

Title: A600 Pcmcia compact Flash Access distorts video colour
Post by: Doppie1200 on April 10, 2016, 06:11:05 PM

Hi,

Maybe someone else knows this problem. My A600 is hooked up to a monitor using the composite video output. Every time I access the pcmcia compact flash the video color is disturbed.

Is this normal? If not, what can be done to remedy this?

Thanks.

Title: Re: A600 Pcmcia compact Flash Access distorts video colour
Post by: paul1981 on April 10, 2016, 06:30:38 PM

I've heard of this before. PSU? Caps? Someone'll know...

Title: Re: A600 Pcmcia compact Flash Access distorts video colour
Post by: XDelusion on April 10, 2016, 07:23:05 PM

It's malware!

Joking! ;)

Title: Re: A600 Pcmcia compact Flash Access distorts video colour
Post by: Doppie1200 on April 11, 2016, 07:18:58 AM

I've been doing some googling. It seems some A600's and A1200's suffer from this. I have not found a fix that is sure to work. A combination of PSU and some capacitors seem to be the problem.

This document seem to address the problem om A1200's http://aminet.net/package/docs/hard/flickfix

It looks as if RGB does not exhibit the problem so I think I'll let it be.

Should someone know how to fix this with a 100% chance of success I'm still interested :)

Title: Re: A600 Pcmcia compact Flash Access distorts video colour
Post by: jltursan on April 11, 2016, 07:36:28 AM

My vote goes to leaky caps. Seems that power line is not stable enough when PCMCIA is active.